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ARM Assembly Programming Using Raspberry Pi ARM Assembly Programming Using Raspberry Pi 1 Introduction The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive credit-card sized Linux computer. At its core is an ARMv6 CPU. The free download Raspbian package (from NOOBS http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/) contains all the software necessary for ARM assembly language programming. The downloaded package includes Raspbian operating system and several programming language supports. Among them is the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) which supports programming in C, C++ and assembly languages. In this document, we will use the commands as (assembler), ld (link loader), and gdb (GNU debugger) from GCC. These are command of command line interface that can be executed from the command prompt. If you are using the graphic user interface (GUI), the command prompt is available from LXTerminal which is part of the Raspbian software package. We will assume the reader is comfortable using the command line interface of the Raspberry Pi. The Raspbian software package comes with two command line text editors: nano editor and vi that may be used to enter and edit the assembly source code. If you prefer to use a GUI text editor, Leafpad is available. For more text editor options , please visit http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/text-editors.md Lastly, the screenshots in this document were captured remotely using Tera Term terminal emulator. The content should look identical to the console display of the Raspberry Pi. Below are the versions of the assembler and linker used in this document. Figure 1: Display of version numbers for as and ld used in this document 2 The Differences The example programs in the book were developed using Keil MDK-ARM and uVision IDE. These programs are intended to be stand-alone programs in an embedded ARM microcontroller. Programs developed using GCC tools in Raspberry Pi are applications running under the Raspbian OS. Here are some of the major differences: 1 of 23 1. The code and data of the program are all loaded in the RAM allocated by the OS using virtual memory addressing. The virtual memory address is the address that the program sees. From a programmer’s perspective, it should make no difference unless you are attempting to read/write the hardware registers. 2. The program is running under Raspbian OS. The OS provides services such as console read/write or file I/O. 3. The syntax for the assembly source file is different. GCC was developed to support many different processors. With the recent version of GCC assembler (v2.24), ARM instructions are kept the same as Keil MDK-ARM, the other parts of the syntax are slightly different. a. Comments are preceded by ‘@’ instead of ‘;’. The assembler also accepts C++ style comment enclosed with ‘/* */’ and ‘//’. b. Labels must be followed by a ‘:’. c. The syntaxes of the directives are different but the mappings are straightforward. Below is a comparison table of the frequently used directives: GCC Directive Keil MDK-ARM Directive Explanation .text TEXT Signifies the beginning of code or constant .data DATA Signifies the beginning of read/write data .global label GLOBAL or EXPORT Makes the label visible to linker .extern label EXTERN label is declared outside of this file .byte byte [,byte, byte, …] DCB Declares byte (8-bit) data .hword hw [,hw, hw, …] DCW Declares halfword (16-bit) data .word word [,word, word, …] DCD Declares word (32-bit) data .float float [,float, float, …] DCFS Declares single precision floating point (32-bit) data .double double [,double, DCFD Declares double precision floating double, …] point (64-bit) data .space #bytes [,fill] SPACE or FILL Declares memory (in bytes) with optional fill .align n ALIGN Aligns address to <2 to the power of n> byte .ascii “ASCII string” DCB “ASCII string” Declares an ASCII string .asciz “ASCII string” DCB “ASCII string”, 0 Declares an ASCII string with null termination .equ symbol, value EQU Sets the symbol with a constant value .set variable, value SETA Sets the variable with a new value .end END Signifies the end of the program Table 1: Comparison of GCC directives and Keil MDK-ARM directives 3 Sample Program Conversion Below is Program 2-1 from the book that was written in Keil MDK-ARM syntax. 2 of 23 Program 2-1 Using Keil MDK-ARM syntax ; ARM Assembly Language Program To Add Some Data and Store the SUM in R3. AREA PROG_2_1, CODE, READONLY ENTRY MOV R1, #0x25 ; R1 = 0x25 MOV R2, #0x34 ; R2 = 0x34 ADD R3, R2, R1 ; R3 = R2 + R1 HERE B HERE ; stay here forever END The same program in GCC syntax for Raspberry Pi is below. Program 2-1p Using GCC as version 2.24 syntax @P2_1.s ARM Assembly Language Program To Add Some Data and Store the SUM in R3. .global _start _start: MOV R1, #0x25 @ R1 = 0x25 MOV R2, #0x34 @ R2 = 0x34 ADD R3, R2, R1 @ R3 = R2 + R1 HERE: B HERE @ stay here forever The changes are: 1. Comments either use C-style /* */ or are preceded with ‘@’. 2. Labels are followed by ‘:’. 3. GCC linker is expecting a label “_start” for the entry point of the program. This label also must be made global so that it is visible to the linker. Technically the code of the program is marked by .text directive at the beginning and the end of the program should have the directive “.end”. However, GCC does not enforce either one. 4 How to Assemble, Link and Run the Program In this example, we enter the program above into a file name p2_1.s in the $HOME/asm directory, assemble, link, and execute the program. First we make a directory with the name asm, change the current directory to asm and launch the editor vi for the file p2_1.s. We are showing the use of editor vi here but you may use any text editor you prefer. 3 of 23 Figure 2: make asm directory, change to asm directory and launch editor vi After typing in the program in vi, the file is saved. Figure 3: the sample program viewed in editor vi The program is assembled using command “as –o p2_1.o p2_1.s”. In this command, “as” is the name of the assembler, “–o p2_1.o” tells the assembler to create the output object file with the name p2_1.o, and lastly, “p2_1.s” is the assembly source file name (see below). Figure 4: the assemble command Like many Unix1 programs, it produces no output to the console when the program ran without errors. 1 Raspbian is ported from Debian which derived from Linux and Linux is derived from Unix. All of them are very similar. In this document we will use Unix as a generic term for these operating system. 4 of 23 Linker takes one or more object files and creates an executable file. To run the linker, use command “ld –o p2_1 p2_1.o”. In this command, “ld” is the name of the linker program, “–o p2_1” tells the linker to produce the output executable file with the name p2_1, and lastly, “p2_1.o” is the input object file name. Figure 5: the linker command Again, the linker produces no output to the console when there were no errors. To execute the program, type the command “./p2_1” at the prompt. It tells the shell to execute the program named p2_1 at the current directory. Figure 6: the command to execute the program p2_1 Recall the last instruction in the program is an infinite loop. After executing the first three instructions, the program is stuck at the infinite loop that consumes 100% of the CPU time. An infinite loop is typical for a program in a simple embedded system without an operating system. For now, type Ctrl-C to terminate the program and get the prompt back. Figure 7: Ctrl-C to terminate the program 5 Program Termination As an application running under a multitasking operating system, the program should be terminated when done. Otherwise, the program running a dummy infinite loop will consume the CPU time and slow down all the other programs. To terminate a program, replace the dummy infinite loop at the end of the program “HERE: B HERE” by: MOV R7, #1 SVC 0 5 of 23 The number 1 placed in Register 7 tells the operating system to terminate this program. The instruction “SVC 0” is the system call, that transfers the program execution to the operating system. If you place a different number in R7, the operating system will perform a difference service. We will visit a system call to write to the console later. After replacing the dummy infinite loop with the system call to end the program, run the assembler and linker again. This time after you execute the program, the program will terminate by itself and the prompt reappears immediately without user intervention. 6 Using GDB A computer without output is not very interesting like the previous example program. We will see how to generate output from a program in the next section, but for most of the programs in this book, they demonstrate the manipulations of data between CPU registers and memory without any output. GDB (GNU Debugger) is a great tool to use to study the assembly programs. You can use GDB to step through the program and examine the contents of the registers and memory. In the following example, we will demonstrate how to control the execution of the program using GDB and examine the register and memory content. 6.1 Preparation to Use GDB When a program is assembled, the executable machine code is generated. To ease the task of debugging, you add a flag “-g” to the assembler command line then the symbols and line numbers of the source code will be preserved in the output executable file and the debugger will be able to link the machine code to the source code line by line.
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